[FredThompson]

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Would you please explain, or point me to and explanation of, how this would be done. I'll search for instructions now.

I'm not stupid, just ignorant.

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OK, I just read about Livestreamer. Looks helpful.

As I understand it, Livestreamer can be used to cut through the intermediary junk and deliver a clean stream. The page mentions going through VLC which would also give a way to do a capture of the decoded stream, correct?

A few days ago one of the KISS capture routines like Jaksta grabbed a series of small decoded FLVs. I'm still trying to figure out how I did it. It might have been Win 8.1 x64 before SP1 was added. Something like that would be great as it would give the closest option to pure source. AdobeHDS could be used to join them. Is this possible?